Date archive for: February 2011

At $work we specialize in performance audits on systems of every size, from start-up sites hacked together overnight, to a ginormous applications built by world-recognized brand companies. I’ve seen a lot of interesting (and sometimes very unique) performance issues in every level of the stack: code (front-end and back-end), architecture, databases, (sometimes all of the above), but there is one particular, very “Performance 101”, issue that I see all the time. And frankly – it bugs the hell out of me. In fact, the problem is so common sense that writing about it seems a little embarrassing, yet the frequency of seeing the same issue is proving otherwise.Continue reading One query show